Louis Rorimer (September 12, 1872 – November 30, 1939) was an American artist, an instructor at the

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, and the founder of Rorimer-Brooks Co.

Life

Louis Rohrheimer was born to Minnie and Jacob Rohrheimer in 1872, the youngest of seven children. At the age of sixteen, Rohrheimer left to study in Europe at the

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in Munich and the

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and

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in Paris. Rohrheimer returned to Cleveland in 1893, founded Rohrheimer Design in 1896, and taught at the Cleveland School of Art from 1898 to 1936. He married Edith Joseph in 1903, and had two children Louise and

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. Rohrheimer changed his name to Rorimer in 1917 due to anti-German and anti-Jewish sentiment. That same year he purchased the Brooks Household Arts Co. and merged it with his own studio to create the Rorimer-Brooks Studios or Rorimer Brooks Co.

Work

Rorimer produced furniture in a variety of styles. He appreciated

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, but as a businessman focused on his clients' tastes. Rorimer displayed 25 articles of furniture at the Cleveland May Show between 1919 and 1926. The

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holds a silver tea set from the Rorimer Studios in its collection.

References

1872 births 1939 deaths American industrial designers Artists from Cleveland Cleveland School (arts community) Cleveland Institute of Art faculty {{US-artist-stub